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Howard’s injuries occurred during a charity auction at the Weld Boathouse with rowers from the Harvard and Northeastern crew teams...
...Beren Hall is a place of pious worship and the site of daily prayer services. But for the auction, seats were arranged fashion-show style around a central catwalk. As approximately 100 undergraduates arrived to bid on the sexy dates-for-sale, the expectant crowd transformed the hall’s atmosphere of religious reverence into a (kosher) meat market...
...gave her a run for her money when he appeared on the catwalk sporting a crimson warm-up suit. A varsity water polo player, Lippin sparked the interest of the female bidders with his tall, athletic build. But the bidding on this bachelor unexpectedly became a combination auction-striptease when the emcees announced that Lippin would be removing articles of his clothing if the bidding surpassed several undisclosed amounts. After a $100 offer, Lippin’s shirt came off, revealing his swimmer’s shoulders and sexy six-pack. Sadly, no one bid high enough...
...evening approached its end, the organizers of the event counted the cash. Proceeds from the date auction exceeded $1000—and everyone’s wildest expectations. The money will be added to the profits from other fundraisers to support the Campus Hillel Ambulance Initiative (CHAI), a fund which intends to donate an ambulance to the State of Israel...
While the organizers emphasized the charitable nature of the auction, they also performed an invaluable service to the social lives of many Jewish undergraduates. Lippin speculated that the high value placed upon intra-religious dating in many Jewish families contributed to the success of the event. Jewish students were more willing to pay big bucks to date someone with whom they share a religion, an ethnicity and a culture. While Lippin admitted that the Jewish dating scene on campus is limited, he said he believes that those limitations only “force you to look harder within the community...